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From the 17th to 19th centuries, hundreds of thousands of African slaves came to America against their will.
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in the 1880`s to the 1920`s there was a huge problem with immigration in the Us
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The first significant federal legislation restricting immigration was the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
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On January 1, 1892, Annie Moore, a teenager from County Cork, Ireland, was the first immigrant processed at Ellis Island. She had made the nearly two-week journey across the Atlantic Ocean in steerage with her two younger brothers. Annie later raised a family on New York City’s Lower East Side
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The United States experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the 19th century and from the 1880s to 1920.
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these are the definitions of the two words that are in the title of the timeline.
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look at the bar graph to see the immigration in the us
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if you look at this pie chart you can see how many people are immigrants from different areas in the world.
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shows the different colors to see what percent of the immigrants are in america
